A few things have to be clarified.
- The terminus technicus 'Kittim' corresponds to Jub's 'Mighty Men (ie
professionals) of War' as well as to Josephus' 'Macedonians'. The
'Cypriotes' in 2Macc, for example, belong in to that military category.
- Romans are indeed 'Sea-people', at least after the Punic Wars, the Pirate
War, the Civil War and Octavian's takeover. For Josephus' contemporaries,
thus, only Rome was a naval power. Other ideas are illusory anachronism.
Dierk
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